A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists agree.

It’s also possible to calculate the length of a whale shark by using measurements of certain parts of its body and inputting these into mathematical ... could be introduced by trying to measure the ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

However, based on the actual body length of the megalodon revealed this time, as well as analysis based on a hydrodynamic model of how large creatures such as whale sharks, basking sharks ...

Sharks don’t have bones. Their skeletons are made of cartilage - the same soft, flexible stuff as your ears and the tip of your nose are made of. This is true for all sharks, from the formidable great ...

“The whale shark has the smallest brain compared to body mass. The brain is the size of an egg,” said Francesca Pancaldi, first author of the study and a researcher at Centro ...